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Did you know that farm soil is increasingly becoming a reservoir for plastic? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Grey Moran, award-winning journalist and staff writer at Civil Eats, where their writing focuses on climate change, the food system, public health, and environmental justice. Moran discusses “plasticulture” and the increasing use of plastic in agriculture, and how the Fair Food Alliance is working around FL law which denies farmworkers heat protection.

Related Websites: Coalition of Immokalee workers and the Fair Food Program: https://ciw-online.org/
Civil Eats: https://civileats.com/author/gmoran/
How Fossil Fuel-derived pesticides and plastics harm health, biodiversity and the climate:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7239621/

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